Good news: My power supply arrived on schedule and I am now back online with my own computer!
Bad news:
Take your hat off in the presence of a dead hero! This is the remains of a once proud EVGA 7600GT graphics card with the strangest failure I have ever seen. My computer would not boot and in fact behaved the same with the new power supply as the old: a quick flash of LED fans and deadness. OK, the power supply is protecting itself but from what?
I disconnected one item from the power at a time, looking for the culprit. Nothing worked. Time to start unplugging peripheral cards. Lets start with.......GRAPHIC CARDS! My very first symptom of a problem was scrambled graphics, Windows couldn't find the top graphics card. When I disconnected SLi and plugged into the bottom card I worked for five minutes before the big pfffffffffft!
I removed the top graphics card and the machine happily booted, asking what my problem was! I reassembled everything and set it up, rebooted and wondered about an 8 month old graphics card. You see the results of my survey above. It's not a pretty sight. Don't know what EVGA is going to say about it.
In the meantime, my machine works. I haven't tried SH4 yet, but I'll get good info on what SLi is worth and report back. That should be very interesting.
Sure is good to have life in the old computer again. Onward, into the fog!
